Quotes About Creation

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

Through these years, I have attempted to create magical moments between my characters because, be it television or films, life is about the moments we create while living through it.

Obviously, I am an attacking player, so when you are an attacking player, you need to create goals and get goals - and that's the main thing for me.